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Samuel S Brisbane Sr was born in Royesville, Liberia. He attended high school in Monrovia, at the College of West Africa (CWA), and was a graduate of the Tübingen University School of Medicine, West Germany. He returned to Liberia to start his medical career at the JFK Medical Center from 1970 through 1974.